Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-30
The Use ofY.and Free md Owners
scfn"liy Paying Renters
to Work il.
Big Prices in the Home Market
for all Crops Raised.
The Great Inducements to the Man
who has q Team and Some
Courage.


From the Meade Center Republican.
We do not desire in the columns Of
tho Republican to unduly excite our
eastern readers, but we would not be
rendering them justice if We did not
impress upon their minds the great ad-
vantagcs offered them in this country.
There are hundreds, yes, thousands of
young, middle aged and old men who
arc giving +" some man "nc-third or
even half of all they can raise for the
use Of ground Some do even more, by
taking ground at cash rent, they not
unfrcquently give them all they raise,
and having given security on their team
for the rent "ccassionly turn this in at
the END of the season, as the crop may
prove failure. Why men of mature
judgment continue tn repeat this year
after year is past all understanding.
Here we can get land already broken
for nothing, and few days since agen-
tlcman Informed us that he had actual
" paid man Sill. 80 as an induccmcnt
to put in a small piece Of ground, rather
than to let lie idle and 90 to weeds.
Riding out into the country las Tues
day we saw several farms that had borne
one and some of them two crops unus-
cd and thickl " set with weeds and grass.
We inquired why they were not put in
and the general answer was that they
did not have time, or that they belong
ed to some one in town who could not
get any one t. farm them. Many Of
these are within easy distance Of this
city. The soil is beautiful and very
productive, new aud rich Why people
remain year after year, renting old worn
out ground, upon which they can bare
ly exc out an existence, is past all com
prchcnsion. 1t must be that they do not
know of the advantages here presented.
A young man who has team, can not
do better than drive them through, if
he has to work a day occasionally on
the road t. earn feed for them and HIM
self. and come to Kansas.
The great bugbcar Of drouths have
passed and gone. There is abundant
rain. We have come to the conclusion
that these reports have been circulated
aud maintained hy stock men who want
cd tho range for their herds. As an in
stance Of what the possibilities of our
soil are VIC mention the fact that upon
one field where corn was raised last year,
We saw among the I'D dry stalks v"lun-
tccr corn fully three feet high. This
cor" came from seed dropped on the
ground last fall, trampcd in by stock
and had made this unprecedented growth
without cultivation. There was not
only few ilsolatcd lunches. but as our
companion, himself Il former Illinois
farmer. remarked, there was almost
enough for crop. The tall green
lunches were everywhere visible. This
c"urn Srr"utc,l long before we had our
spring rains and thus bears evidence
that the ground retained large degree
of moisture though there had been no
rain upon it since last September and
very little snow, not enough worth no.
ticiny. Ground ene broken can i.e farm
cd carly, it is useless to wait for rain.
One Of the great drawbacks to our
Iowa and Illinois farmers is the plant
ing Of poor seed corn, thing here un-
known. The seasons arc so long that
the latest COR, has ample time to ripcm
We may toe asked If there is market
for these crops when grown? The best
evidence "r this is the price "f grain
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